It Is Well With My Soul the Shocking True StoryНамуна

And Lord haste the day, when the faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.

"It Is Well With My Soul" written by Horatio Spafford

Do you long for the day when Jesus comes back to earth, and renews heaven and earth through his victory over sin and death on the cross? You can only have this hope if you know you are forgiven and, as we have seen earlier, Jesus has accomplished forgiveness for you. God the Father raised Jesus up from hell, "ending the pains of death, because it was not possible for Him to be held by it." Acts 2:24.

Imagine in your mind a rocket ship taking off from earth - we have seen it many times on TV. The sheer power of the massive machine, being lifted by the phenomenal force of the rocket's thrust and energy.

Now multiply that image by a million times and you still will not be close to what actually happened when God the Father went down into hell and defeated Satan to declare,  "death has been swallowed up in victory!" 1 Corinthians 15:54.

With sin defeated (smashed and obliterated!) we can now turn to what the future holds, which is what Horatio writes about in the last verse of his hymn "It Is Well With My Soul." Yes, at this present time we walk by sight. We know our sins have been forgiven but we don't yet see the perfection promised by God. 

"When the faith shall be sight", as Horatio writes, is unpacked in the beautiful verses of Revelation 21:4-7,

God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
Death will no longer exist;
grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer,
because the previous things have passed away.

Then the One seated on the throne said, “Look! I am making everything new.” He also said, “Write, because these words are faithful and true.” And He said to me, 

“It is done!

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.

I will give water as a gift to the thirsty from the spring of life. The victor will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son."

An old friend of mine, Geoff, once told me he had a vision of heaven while on earth, of being taken up into the heavenly realms. Like many who have had such a special experience, he couldn't describe what he saw and felt in human terms, but he tried, with this song below. 

My prayer is that you will know the forgiveness already accomplished for you through the blood of Jesus shed on the cross, and be transformed into a new person. A person of peace. Remember, it is done! So believe, and live!

One day weʼll see Him face to face,
And then our hearts will beat as one,
That day weʼll know the glory of His grace,
As we on earth have never known.

Sometimes we are surprised by joy,
Sometimes a bliss unbidden comes,
And in that moment of enriching love
Come intimations of our home.

Our hearts are gladdened in this world,
When grace gives sudden sights of love,
But oh! how richer when our hearts in hope
Reach out to fuller bliss above.

ʼTis then the sights of heaven abound,
And flood our tired hearts of pain,
The tears of wonder flow in ecstasy,
And we are fully home again.

The years of sorrow and of strife,
The sin that brought a holy shame,
The guilt our hearts could never wholly hide
Will never visit us again.

Dear Lover, Savior, Jesus Christ,
Our present life is hid in Thee,
But oh! the wonder when we are unveiled
In glory of our liberty.

Till then we live in present hope,
In patience of the coming sight,
And those who share with You Your glory now,
We then will meet with great delight.

Delight and bliss and joy and love,
As now our hearts cannot contain,
Will flood us as we see Him face to face
And we are wholly one again.

Written by Geoffrey Bingham, 1919–2009

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